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THROSTLE. Clafs II. 



III. The THROSTLE. 



La petite Grive. Behn a'v. 226. 

 Turdus minor alter. Qefner av. 



762. 

 Aldr. a^j. ii. 275. 

 Storno. Olina 18. 

 Mavis, Throltle, or Song tlirufh. 



TVil. orn. 188. 

 Raii/)n. a<v. 64. 

 La petite Grive, Turdus minor. 



Brijjfon anj. ii. 205. 



Turdus muficus. Lin.fyfi. 292. 



Faun. Suec.fp. 217. 



Turdus in altiffimis. Klein Jiem, 



anj. tab, i 3 . 

 Weindrofchl ,Weiffdrofchl, Som* 



merdrofchl. Kram. 361. 

 Cimhris & Bornhohms^xi.n^xoKtl» 



Norvegis, Tale Trait. Br. 236. 

 Br. Zool. gi. plate P. f. 2. 



Defer. ^T^HIS fpecles weighs three ounces -, its length is 

 JL nine inches ; its breadth thirteen and a half, 

 for a farther defcription, the reader is referred to that 

 of the firft kind. The throftle is the fined of our 

 finging birds, not only for the fweetnefs and variety 

 of its notes, but for long continuance of its harmony ; 

 for it obliges us with its fong for near three parts of 

 the year. Like the mifiel-bird, it delivers its mufic 

 from the top of fome high tree; but to form its nefl 

 defcends to fome low bufh or thicket; the neft is 

 made of earth, mofs, and ftraws, and the infide is 

 curioufly plaiftered with clay. It lays five or fix 

 eggs, of a pale bluifh green, marked with da-fe 

 ipots. 



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